In 1841 WC
began work as a tea importer's clerk; bored by the position, he published his first story. His father, landscape painter William Collins
, was impressed by his son's determination to write, and...
Education
John Donne
He was admitted while very young to Oxford University
(where he did not, however, take his degree) and later to Lincoln's Inn
. He was a law student when he wrote most of his love-poetry...